Leadership Coaching E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 38

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Leadership in the top management ranks is often an isolated business. Many managers recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective facilitator. This guidebook is for managers who are considering leadership coaching as a tool in their personal leadership development. It describes what leadership coaching is and cna help you decide whether it is appropriate for your situation. You'll also learn how to locate and select a qualified coach with the professional and personal credentials and characteristics that match your development needs so that you can achieve the goals you've set.

Leseprobe

Contents

What Is Leadership Coaching?

Is It Right for You Now?

Increased Complexity

Organizational Expectations

Demands for Behavior Change

Significant Transitions

Predicted Changes

Highly Politicized Environments

Moves from Tactical to Strategic Roles

What to Expect

Setting Up the Coaching Engagement

Using Assessments

Creating Action Plans and Coaching Meetings

Measuring Results

Completing the Coaching Engagement

Selecting a Coach

To Whom Is the Coach Accountable?

What Credentials Matter?

Are You Ready?

Suggested Readings

Background

Key Point Summary

Lead Contributor

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This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) has generated, since its inception in 1970, through its research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared—in a way that is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and working together to understand and generate practical responses to today’s leadership and organizational challenges.

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EXECUTIVE BRIEF

Leadership in the top management ranks is often an isolated business. Many managers recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective facilitator. This guidebook is for managers who are considering leadership coaching as a tool in their personal leadership development. It describes what leadership coaching is and can help you decide whether it is appropriate for your situation. You’ll also learn how to locate and select a qualified coach with the professional and personal credentials and characteristics that match your development needs so that you can achieve the goals you’ve set.

What Is Leadership Coaching?

Leadership coaching is a formal engagement in which a qualified coach works with an organizational leader in a series of dynamic, private sessions designed to establish and achieve clear goals that will result in improved business effectiveness for the individual, as well as his or her team and organization. A good coach helps leaders develop clarity of purpose and focus on action.

Leadership coaching uses the relationship between the coach and the person being coached as a platform for questioning assumptions, stimulating reflection, creating alternatives, and growing perspectives. The coach can be a coach by profession or a leader who uses coaching skills; either way, leadership coaching is consciously and explicitly directed at improving the individual’s leadership capacity while achieving organizational objectives. While sometimes aimed at remedying a gap or correcting a fault, it is often focused on readying a leader for increased responsibilities, speeding acclimation to a new challenge, or providing an objective sounding board and thought partner when everyone else around a leader is pushing a viewpoint. This is not to say that personal matters are never included in the coaching work—a leader brings his or her whole life to bear on the leadership task—but it means that the focus of attention is on achieving organizational success.

Is It Right for You Now?